It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.
To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
